55 chev Cameo

Well its a nice sunny warm day and the fridge is full of cold beer so what better way to spend the day but enjoying the sun and a couple of beers and building models. So I thought I would give this a go. I have to say so far this has been a great model to build. Everything fits millimeter perfect.

This is what the box says


So gone are the standard wheels and spokes are replacing them and the standard carby is still on the sprue and some nice triples are sitting in the valley. I still need to make a dual exhaust to replace the single system that came with it .... so the chassis looks like this ...



Now the interior tub is as basic as can be. The detail for the door trims is almost invisible so I am not even going to try to paint it



So to break up the 'bland' I got out some corrugated card and made door trims and I think they came up pretty good. Im doing the interior in blue and white otherwise there is just too much blue.




So thats what I have so far. There was going to be some bare metal foil bits but Oz post appear to have lost the stuff I ordered and waiting on the replacement.

Anyway back to the fridge ....errrrmmm sorry workbench and its body time !

Good start dude, liking that colour.

two tone interior looks good, check your windscreen fit before you praise it too much

Nice start.

Nice one mate, love the interior work, if you make the top of the esky your work bench, you wont have to move all day.

DeeCee wrote:Nice one mate, love the interior work, if you make the top of the esky your work bench, you wont have to move all day.

True but there is always the chance of dropping it when I lift the lid to get another can ...hmmm maybe 2 esky's and swap esky's when I empty the first one ???

Looking good.

doorslammerfan wrote:two tone interior looks good, check your windscreen fit before you praise it too much

Oh yea ...what a PITA Spent ages building up around the window frame ..still not a great fit but better than it was. And then after all that and fitting it and glueing it without getting a glue finger print ...I checked it and there has been a glue run onto the screen. Grrrr I didnt use much glue either. Not having a good run with windscreens lately.

Anyhoot ...I really hate that tray at the back so today I had a go at scratch building a tray for the back. Not quite finished but once its all painted and the checkerplate is alcladed it should look OK.




Hopefully have it finished soon. About to start an e type which should be fun. I have 2 actualy ...first one will be box stock the other will have some 'improvements'

Cheers guys

Holy heck Dean!! You don't mess around!! Looking very nice so far, interior looks great.

Tray is looking pretty good already mate, fish obviously weren't biting today eh? you got a fair bit done.

intresting what you are doing putting a tray on it.

DeeCee wrote:Tray is looking pretty good already mate, fish obviously weren't biting today eh? you got a fair bit done.

Hehee na no fishing till Monday when I hit the coast. Been here (collie for about a month and its getting too cold and rainy for me so time to head north I think.

Looking forward to glueing with the sound of the ocean and nothing else .....

allan wrote:intresting what you are doing putting a tray on it.

I hate the styleside tray it comes with. I was going to use a tub from a 65 but I thought naaa lets be different. It wont have fancy show and go paint ...just a basic one ...its a work ute so I dont want it toooooo flash hehe !

The interior looks sweet as mate!

checkmate wrote:The interior looks sweet as mate!

Yea thanks. I just need to fill that split / join in the top. Pretty happy with it so far,

baZOOKa wrote:

DeeCee wrote:Tray is looking pretty good already mate, fish obviously weren't biting today eh? you got a fair bit done.

(collie for about a month and its getting too cold and rainy for me so time to head north I think.

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Gee, i hope it didn't drop below 25 on you,( yesterday and today here in Tas, about 12 degrees, rain, southerly wind with snow on the tiers( about 100 km away),
don't know how your puttin up with it mate.

Been getting 2 and 3 degree mornings and days are around 15 - 20 . The nights are OK as I have my scotch and stones green ginger and electric blanket (Yea Im a woos ...but I am a warm woos!)

Makes painting hard and glue does not set to quick ...but hey I will manage hehehe !

DeeCee wrote:

Gee, i hope it didn't drop below 25 on you,( yesterday and today here in Tas, about 12 degrees, rain, southerly wind with snow on the tiers( about 100 km away),
don't know how your puttin up with it mate.